Items tagged with: Hemmings In-Depth

Front-wheel drive had been done before, of course. Even the transverse engine front-wheel-drive layout predated the Mini. However, as this 1961 BMC video via British Pathe notes, Alec Issigonis’ triu...

One of three limos built for Packard executives in 1941, the car’s trunk housed an enormous air conditioning unit. My brother tried to sell the Packard at the 1972 Hershey, Pennsylvania, classic car ...

Given the fact it’s been uploaded to YouTube and now we’re able to share it, the information in this CIA mobile surveillance training video from 1974, shot around the western London suburbs, is likel...

My first ride in Greyhound’s Scenicruiser was like going to heaven. Hemmings file photo. “Can you spare a buck?” the alcohol-challenged “gentleman” asked loudly. Where did he come from? Why didn’t se...

Dad always filled his car trunk to capacity. Photo by Richard Lentinello. Dad’s car trunk was loaded with so many tools and emergency equipment it would have made a service station mechanic envious. ...

Back in 1966, Bruno Bozzetto released this short animated film following Signor Rossi’s purchase of a car and all the miseries and madness and anti-social tendencies that come along with the purchase...

What exactly was the connection between Colin Chapman’s Lotus and John DeLorean’s DMC? How did Chapman keep Lotus going financially — and personally — in the years before his death? Through interview...

Photos by Geoff Hacker, except where noted. Photo History Starting in the autumn of 1952 until the spring of 1954 I was a student at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), studying mechanic...

While there are other races on the Australian Touring Car Championship schedule, other circuits around Oz to turn a tire in anger, it’s Bathurst (technically the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, N...

My parents’ 1937 Nash LaFayette took me on my first vacation. We stayed at a motel—actually, a long string of lakeshore cabins—in 1949. The lake and our cabin smelled of dead fish. Photo by Mark J. M...

Granted, this video tour of the BMW Museum by Car TV is coming up on four years old, but it still makes for an interesting half-hour or so. We especially appreciate the lack of a soundtrack or narrat...

Photo by Danny Taylor. Just a short year ago, I had never heard of the Great American Mountain Rally (GAMR). But then I stumbled onto an article detailing a proposed 2018 “revival” running of the GAM...

Image courtesy ArteAuto.com. The videos are shaky and grainy and in Spanish, but 65 years later they remain fascinating because they’re first-hand accounts of the fourth running of La Carrera Panamer...

“Toot-Scoot” (left), my first “motorcycle,” cost $35. The U.S. Post Office “mailster” was fun to drive, too, dates sitting next to me on that yellow, hand-made seat. Its rear wheel crushed a young la...

Craig in his dad’s garage with the Spirit of America mockup, holding his model of the car in its original configuration. Note that “Firestone” is painted on the front wheel. (That’s another story!) I...

Underpowered, slow, and uncomfortable, Peykans were everywhere in Iran in the 1970s. Fearless Tehran taxi drivers often drove their Peykans on sidewalks or the wrong direction on one-way streets. Pho...

Jerry Entin in his McLaren-Oldsmobile in pit lane at the 1965 Inaugural Stardust Grand Prix. Photo courtesy of the Jerry Entin Collection. [Editor’s note: Given its location, one would expect no less...

Worldwide, the collector car hobby has a cornucopia of events to choose from, but if any of them is most like the Comic-Cons with their increasingly prevalent cosplay, it’s the Goodwood Revival, know...

The Bill Moyers video on the state of the American auto industry in the early 1980s — as would any report on the industry at that time — heavily referenced the impact of the Japanese auto industry as...

“Bus” was different and a lot of fun to drive…unless I got stuck in mud, sand, or snow. It was the late ’60s, Woodstock was happening, and everyone displayed the “peace sign.”All photos courtesy the ...

There’s an early 1980s’ CNN report floating around YouTube in which reporter Robert Vito runs down the high-level challenges that the American auto industry faced circa 1982. But a couple years earli...

Hemmings archive photo. Senior designer Frank Hershey had been working on the rear fender design idea that had first come to him before the war, when Harley Earl led the field trip to Selfridge air b...

All images courtesy the author. When America’s favorite automotive journalist tested “one of the snappiest little cars on the road” in Buffalo, New York, he was mobbed at every stop. “The sheered off...

The “Bugtussle Caddy” has participated in more than a dozen “Treks.” Photos by the author unless otherwise stated. I couldn’t take my eyes off that Cadillac. Built in 1941, it was older than I, origi...

This year’s 25th Goodwood Festival of Speed just seemed all around the most spectacular such event, whether due to the anniversary, to steadily increasing participation and enthusiasm from car enthus...